FRINGE LAB: Experimental Forms Workshop with Nathan Ellis
Are you a contemporary theatre maker looking to invigorate your practice? Do you have an idea bursting out that you’re looking to shape? If so - this workshop is for you!
Date: Friday 24th October
Number: For 14 people
Time: 10am – 5pm, with lunch provided by Dublin Fringe
Where: FRINGE LAB, Dublin Fringe Festival HQ, Sycamore Street
Experimental Forms is a hands-on workshop for theatre and multidisciplinary practitioners. This workshop looks at how award-winning company SUBJECT OBJECT and Nathan Ellis makes work by identifying how they give ideas shape. Nathan Ellis toured his hit show work.txt (a play without actors) to Dublin as part of the Festival in 2023 where it won an award for technical innovation and wowed Irish audiences and artists alike.
The workshop will cover:
- Different ways of understanding form in theatre
- How form can help you think about making new work of any kind – traditional or not!
- Putting the theory into practice by applying those ideas to projects and ideas you're currently working on.
You'll need to bring a pen and paper and a nascent idea – a hunch about what you might work on next.
Please note, this workshop is for artists who have an experimental multidisciplinary and/or theatre practice with at least one production staged in Ireland or abroad.
There are 14 places on the workshop. Places will be offered on a first come, first served basis to all eligible artists. All FRINGE LAB workshops are free to attend and Dublin Fringe Festival offices are accessed by stairs.
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This event is supported by the Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet. CCIS designs, develops and delivers responsive, bespoke, flexible and relevant skills and talent development programmes to address the ongoing needs of the cultural & creative sectors. Find out more on www.creativeskillnet.ie
LEARN MORE ABOUT SUBJECT OBJECT
Founded in 2021, SUBJECT OBJECT is an award-winning theatre company, based in the East Midlands UK. They specialise in formally-bold new-writing with global ideas. They are led by award-winning writer Nathan Ellis. Their show work.txt (a play without actors) (★★★★★ Observer) has so far been translated into seven languages and performed on six continents. Instructions won a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2024 and tours China and Australia 2025. They have twice been supported by Farnham Maltings at Caravan, their showcase of the best new work being made in England. At the Prague Quadrennial 2024, Nathan spoke about the company's work on theatre and transhumanism in a talk entitled Scenes for Robots: Automation, Dehumanisation, and Playwriting. Nathan was a member of the Royal Court Invitation Writers’ Supergroup 2018-19 led by Alice Birch and Ali Mcdowall. He was a member of the Channel 4 Screenwriting Group 2023 and BBC WritersRoom Drama Room 2021-22. In 2020 his play SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION was Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. He is a Creative Associate of the Nottingham Playhouse and is represented in the UK by Giles Smart at United Agents and by Bastian Häfner at Felix-Bloch Erben in Germany.
